Stormfront Boss: Wii is Next-Gen if We Say it Is

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Stormfront Boss: Wii is Next-Gen if We Say it Is

Despite the Wii's rampant popularity, most folks consider it to be strictly last-gen, but Stormfront Studios' president Don Daglow thinks that developers should expand their definition of what "next-gen" really means.

Speaking at GCDC in Germany, Daglow said that next-gen is less about processing power and more about changing the player's experience:

Next-gen hardware is any platform that, upon its introduction, dramatically changes players' view of the potential for interactive entertainment. If [software] changes the player's view of what interactive entertainment is; if you think differently about it; if you have a new perspective after playing the game that you didn't have before, to me that's next-gen.

His point seemed to be based on altering one's mindset when it came to thinking about the Wii: rather than say the Wii's technological shortcomings make it last-gen, why not say that its unique abilities make it next-gen? It's an interesting debate. Is a platform's "next-gen"-ness determined strictly by what's under the hood, or can it also influenced by what kind of gaming experience the console offers the player?